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Pakicetus
Taxonomy
Pakicetus was named by Gingerich and Russell (1981). It is the type genus of Pakicetidae. It was considered monophyletic by Cooper et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Protocetidae by Gingerich and Russell (1981), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993); to Pakicetinae by Gingerich and Russell (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Pakicetidae by Thewissen et al. (1996), Thewissen and Hussain (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Cooper et al. (2009), Uhen (2010), Gingerich (2012); and to Pakicetidae by van Vliet (2004), Clementz et al. (2006), Gingerich and Cappetta (2014), Gao and Ni (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).
It was assigned to Protocetidae by Gingerich and Russell (1981), Carroll (1988), Benton (1993); to Pakicetinae by Gingerich and Russell (1990), McKenna and Bell (1997); to Pakicetidae by Thewissen et al. (1996), Thewissen and Hussain (1998), Thewissen et al. (2001), Thewissen et al. (2001), Geisler and Sanders (2003), McLeod and Barnes (2008), Cooper et al. (2009), Uhen (2010), Gingerich (2012); and to Pakicetidae by van Vliet (2004), Clementz et al. (2006), Gingerich and Cappetta (2014), Gao and Ni (2015), Marx et al. (2016), Berta (2017).
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